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plum duff

noun

  1. a duff containing raisins.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of plum duff1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

He felt a sudden appetite of his own for the good, old-fashioned plum-duff of shipboard days, and started one going.

Think I don't know how to make plum-duff—me that's sailed the sea for thutty-five years?

Roast beef and plum duff, not to speak of pipes and 'baccy, and forty old people of both sexes sitting down to 'the do.'

Jest settin' easy, bawlin' orders—jest feedin' on plum duff.

If it was unusually large, he would say: "Plum duff and fried chicken for a Sunday dinner."

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